"The difference between journalists and other people is that other people spend their lives running from violence, tragedy and horror and we spend ours trying to get in on it...I long for stray mortar rounds, typhus epidemics, starving babies at the very least. Please understand, this isn’t courage or a desire to tell the world the truth. It’s sloth. Nothing makes an easier lead sentence than a stray mortar round hitting a starving baby in a typhus hospital. That is Pulitzer stuff."
--P.J. O’Rourke
"In Search of the Cocaine Pirates"